| Personally I'm damn tired of hearing Hispanics complain about English usage. If when they use the word "America" in Spanish they wish to define it as stretching from Ellesmere Island to Tierra del Fuego, that's fine. But they shouldn't try to impose their view of things on our language, which knows what it means by "America" and "Americans".
By contast, both Spanish-speakers and English-speakers would spontaneously agree that "gringo" is simply a term of abuse no different from "beanmouth". Which makes rummie a cheap little bigot when he uses it.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |